Academia: Postdoctoral System

“There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. Some end up trapped as ‘permadocs’: doing multiple postdoc terms, staying for many years and, in a small but significant proportion, never leaving. What does the future hold?

By the time … reached her twelfth year as a postdoctoral fellow, she had finally had enough …”

The Keyboard: Urges you to create; turns Surface into a Gadget that facilitates Creative Expression. (In contrast, the UI and design of Tablet or Touch-only Devices make them suitable for Media, Apps & Games consumption only).

The pitching for Surface Pro: “Workplace Computer that you can carry around and use as a Tablet”.

Microsoft

“In my role as technical advisor to Satya, I get to join product reviews and am impressed by the vision and talent I see. The result is evident in products like Cortana, Skype Translator, and HoloLens — and those are just a few of the many innovations that are on the way.”

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The Beginnings Of A Renaissance In The 21st Century #21stCenturyRenaissance

A Renaissance in Scientific and Engineering Innovation has quietly started in 2014 – mostly inside the walls of Large Corporate Houses.

People will begin to notice its impact within a year or so – when novel innovations from Corporations really start affecting our day to day lives and people begin to write and talk about those innovations widely.

My ideas and my writings are inspiration to this 21st Century Renaissance. My capacity to challenge the best Companies on the planet is the driving force.

And Apple, the consumer Electronics Company, has started working on a new Digital Car ( #DigitalCar ) – that is Self Driving [5] and Electric [6]and a new Search Engine [7].

Auto Companies

Auto Companies have renewed their efforts on innovation and research.

And It’s not justAmericanAuto Corporations. German and Japanese Auto Corporations are equally excited by innovation possibilities!

We witnessed their efforts and had a glimpse of our future cars in CES 2015.

German automakerMercedes-Benz showcased their “Concept Car” [3] – which is pretty far from “Cars” as we know them today!

Japanese automakerToyota unveiled almost 6000 patents concerning “Fuel Cell Technology” to the world – furthering opportunities for research and innovation for people all over the world in CES 2015 [2].

Physical Digital Computing

And in the mean time – several new areas of innovation are taking shape – (from Digital Manufacturing and “Wearables” to Smart Home and Physical Digital Retail) – all of which fall under the broad area “Physical Digital Computing”.

Innovations will accelerate by several magnitudes as soon as I start working on Engineering & Scientific Innovations : At My Ventures[1].

Welcome to the 21st Century Renaissance!

Welcome to a new World – a world far better than the world we used to live in!

The Diamond Princess, part of Carnival’s Princess Cruises line, carried Chinese tourists off the coast of Fukuoka, Japan, in August.

“Carnival says it already enjoys a 55% to 60% share of the tiny but fast-growing Chinese market, and executives expect it to grow to about half the size of the U.S. market—the industry’s largest—by 2020.”

“Microsoft hopes Windows 10 will fulfill its long-standing promise to establish a common software foundation for PCs, tablets, smartphones and Xbox. Unifying them could allow for seamless activities across devices, such as letting Xbox users shift in midgame from the console to a Windows PC.

The larger benefit of a cross-device operating system, however, is creating a bigger base of users to appeal to software developers.”

“Energy giant Exxon has ceded its position as the world’s second-largest public companyto tech firm Microsoft, after concerns about the falling price of oil drove its shares down.

Exxon’s shares traded at $94.90 midday on Friday, reducing the total value of all its shares, or market capitalisation, to $401.9bn (£256.7bn). Shares in Microsoft – which have been rising after a strong October earnings report – hit $49.81.
That gives it a value of $410.5bn.”

Plans and Targets: Microsoft

Microsoft Surface:

Tablet Marketshare Target – Surpass iPad.

Introduce Lower cost and lighter (in weight) Version [“Surface Light”; besides “Surface Pro”]. Surface “Light” will be “Stylish”. It’s not going to be “just another cheap Laptop” and buyers would compare it with iPad and Mac. UI innovations in Windows 10.

The Keyboard: Urges you to create (Tablet / touch-only Devices – only for Media, Apps & Games consumption).

The pitching for Surface Pro: “Workplace Computer that you can carry around and use as a Tablet”.

One Surface – In place of:

One Laptop (Study; work) and

One Tablet (“Coolness factor”; Consumption of Media, Apps, Games).

Microsoft Cloud– Cloud Marketshare – #1

Linux support is wise. More Languages (+ Scala), more Database (NoSQLs) options, more data processing features, more features.

To Designers: I want you to collaborate with other Designers and come up with lots of alternative designs.

I will make the final design choices – from all of the alternative designs – taking all the factors into consideration.]

Overall Directions

Satya Nadella, being young (and upto date) – is focused on bringing ideas that are currently appreciated and successful in the Industry (even if the ideas are not as widespread and strictly followed at Microsoft):

Cloud first, Mobile first

Competing by quickly bringing products to Market and following up with quick iterations.

[Remarks : Following up with quick updates gets more significant in a “Mobile first, Cloud first” world – where you can push updates whenever you want.]

“Intel CEO Brian Krzanich offered a glimpse into the company’s vision of the near future with a number of cutting-edge demonstrations including gesture controls, facial recognition security prompts, drones that know how to move around obstacles and a jacket that can help the visually impaired or blind sense what’s around them.

At the heart of many of the demonstrations was Intel’s RealSense 3D, the company’s depth-sensing camera technology.

Intel also made another push for wearables with Curie, a button-sized chip

“2015 is truly a unique year,” Krzanich said. “It‘s the beginning of the next consumer technology wave.”

“Energy giant Exxon has ceded its position as the world’s second-largest public companyto tech firm Microsoft, after concerns about the falling price of oil drove its shares down.

Exxon’s shares traded at $94.90 midday on Friday, reducing the total value of all its shares, or market capitalisation, to $401.9bn (£256.7bn). Shares in Microsoft – which have been rising after a strong October earnings report – hit $49.81.
That gives it a value of $410.5bn.

Introduce Lower cost and lighter (in weight) versions [Surface “Light”; besides Surface Pro]. Surface “Light” has to be stylish. Buyers (it’s not going to be another cheap Laptop) would compare it with iPad and Mac. UI innovations in Windows 10?

Workplace Computer that you can carry around – Surface Pro

One Surface – In place of “1 Laptop (For study, work) and 1 Tablet (“Coolness factor”) for consumption of Media, Apps, Games”.

To Designers: I want you to collaborate with other Designers and come up with lots of alternative designs.

I will make the final design choices – from all of the alternative designs – taking all the factors into consideration.]

Overall directionSatya Nadella, being young (and upto date) – is focused on bringing ideas that are currently appreciated and successful in the Industry (even if the ideas are not as widespread and strictly followed at Microsoft):

Cloud first, Mobile first

Competing by quickly bringing products to Market and following up with quick iterations.

[Remarks : Following up with quick updates gets more significant in a “Mobile first, Cloud first” world – where you can push updates whenever you want.]

“More “Brains”: bright foreign born students with American Education and Smart Entrepreneurs joining the American economy (rather than leaving for his / her emerging country). We surely don’t want foreign born students to leave our country once they are done with their Engineering or PhD degrees.

As is evident from FWD.US, high tech companies enthusiastically support the immigration reform. They want to turn more of smart foreign Engineers into American Engineers.Statistics reflect the motivation that is driving the high tech companies.

In 2010, Asian Americans became the majority of tech workforce in the valley for the first time, making up 50.1 percent [1].One third of the startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indian Americans [1].Moreover, immigrants bring new views, new perspectives from which to look at things we got used to. “

“Energy giant Exxon has ceded its position as the world’s second-largest public companyto tech firm Microsoft, after concerns about the falling price of oil drove its shares down.

Exxon’s shares traded at $94.90 midday on Friday, reducing the total value of all its shares, or market capitalisation, to $401.9bn (£256.7bn). Shares in Microsoft – which have been rising after a strong October earnings report – hit $49.81.
That gives it a value of $410.5bn.

Computer Science at its breadth (Read by everyone from Engineers to University Computer Science Professors around the world to keep up with the latest developments in Computer Science and find out where the field is headed next)

“Stacey BurrVice president, wearable sports electronics, adidas“Physiology and activity sensors will enable volumes of data to be collected from athletes unobtrusively. Predictive analytics will be delivered through alerts, enabling coaches to respond in real time to performance shifts or injury risks. When injuries occur, sensors will inform rehabilitation strategies. These insights will enable coaches to be more precise in their training methods and athletesto sustain peak performance over time.”

John CoulsonHead of professional football services, Opta “The biggest advancement will be the acceptance and integration of qualified data scientists into a team’s back-room staff. This Moneyball approachwill continue to change footballas it has changed many sports.”

“Microsoft has patched a critical bug in its software that had existed for 19 years.The bug had been present in every version of Windows since 95, IBM said.Attackers could exploit the bug to remotely control a PC, and so users are being urged to download updates.”

Satya Nadella, being young (and upto date) – is focused on bringing ideas that are currently appreciated and successful in the Industry (even if the ideas are not as widespread and strictly followed at Microsoft):

Cloud first, Mobile first

Competing by quickly bringing products to Market and following up with quick iterations.

Comment : Following up with quick updates gets more significant in a Mobile first, Cloud first world – where you can push updates whenever you want.